Calling All Crones

I was appalled by a Midol ad on the boob tube last night, which ended with a young woman frolicking on the beach and the tag line 'Reverse the Curse'. Thanks for setting womanhood back a millennium or so, Midol; I haven't heard menstruation called 'The Curse' since my high school days in the Stone Age! How archaic and Victorian are we going to let them get? Couple that with the news that our water supplies have been contaminated with estrogen hormones, turning Potomac, male bass into hermaphroditic egg bearers, the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade - and we have the makings of an all out witch hunt forming. And I won't even get into fashion turning back the clock to peddle-pushers, baby-doll shoes, and the Empire waist-line. Has Madison Avenue gone nuts? Are we being forced back into the kitchen because a female dared to step to the National podium?

These may seem like petty issues to some of you, but trust me on this. I won't even bring up the fact that I warned you all about hormone therapy 20 yrs. ago and sailed thru menopause by simply employing soy and flax. On a routine thyroid exam yesterday, I had to - once again - argue with the doc about giving me estrogen and forcing me into a mammogram. YOU take massive radiation once a year on your nads, guys, then tell me you don't see a connection between testicular cancer and smashing your balls in an x-ray machine!

Boycott (and write) Midol until they stop using accepted witch language. And my apologies to every white wiccan on the planet for being dragged back into white, male, Biblical, blame fantasies.